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I set my menu down. I was hoping to ignore it honestly.
“Juno, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have kissed you the other day. I shouldn’t have let you kiss me just now. We can’t. You know we can’t.”
Her eyes are flickering. “No, I don’t know that. Explain it to me, Bo.”
I motion between us. “What do you think this would do to my relationship with Eli?”
She shrugs. “Nothing.”
“Bullshit.”
The server walks over to us with waters, and we both fall silent. After he leaves, I lean forward and say, “You don’t believe that for a second.”
“He’d get over it,” she says.
“I don’t think so, and Juno, he’s not just my best friend. He’s my business partner.”
She rolls her eyes. “Always about money with you guys.”
“It’s not just money, but yeah, the money part of it is important too.”
She takes a sip of her water. “Well, Eli doesn’t need to know.”
I laugh. “And you really think we can keep this from him?”
She shrugs up one of her shoulders. “Sure, why not? Maggie and Declan kept their relationship a secret for years.”
“Sort of. Eli found out, didn’t he?” I fire back.
She just chews on her bottom lip, and I continue, “What about your other brothers? I doubt anything goes on with you that the President doesn’t know about. He almost caught me last night.”
Her eyes widen. “So you were coming to my room?”
Goddammit. Why can’t I keep my mouth shut?
She’s giving me a flirty smile now.
“No,” I stammer. “I wasn’t. I was just going to get some water, and he was in the hallway.”
She leans in. “Liar. You just said –he almost caught me. You were coming, weren’t you?”
I throw my hands up. “What does it matter? It would have been a mistake. You are off limits.”
My words just hang in the air, and her demeanor changes immediately. She sits up straight. Her jaw set tight. “And that’s fair?”
It’s not, but I don’t want to go head to head with the President.
“Why can’t we make a decision based off whatwewant notmy brothers?” she asks.
The server returns to get our order. I pick up the menu and point at something. I’m sure everything is good. She studies hers for a moment and then orders a salad.
Weshouldbe able to make decisions based off what we want. But’s it’s more than that, and I’m not going to admit it to her. The fact is she terrifies me. I feel things around her that I shouldn’t feel. Hell, I feel things for her even when I’mnotaround her. I think about her constantly.
She’s under my skin and everywhere in my head. I know she doesn’t feel the same way. I’ve seen the way she flirts with every guy that comes her way. She’s here to have fun. She wants a fling, and I get it. She’s young. She’s a lot younger than me, and she deserves to be young. She deserves to have fun. I’m not in that stage of life anymore. I can’t have a fling with her. I know I can’t. My heart cannot handle that.
I drag my hands over my face. Honestly, my heart hasn’t been the same since our first kiss years ago, and it’s been near torture to see her when I tag along to family events with Eli. I could stop going, but half of the reason I go is to see her. It’s the sweetest kind of torture. The kind I should run away from at all costs but can’t make myself. But this – this is far too much. Kissing is nearly killing me. If I took her to bed, I can’t even imagine. It would wreck me.
She tilts her head to the side. “Did you malfunction? Why are you looking at me like that?”
